Eh, not really.

Foo and I have been futzing around with a little idea. In the grand scheme of things, it's nothing really new, but it involved XMLHttpRequest and XParser. While I love FooReader and FooReader.NET, implementing the app is cumbersome; especially if you want to deploy on a ColdFusion, .NET, PHP, or any other web technology platform. You have to port the code to the new platform, plus you must have a service running to keep the feeds updated.

The better solution is to have everything on the client-side, and there's nothing more suited for the job than XMLHttpRequest. Unfortunately, the people at Mozilla decided to support the JavaScript object, yet not allow it to be used to retrieve data from other domains. This begs the question: Why support an object if you're not going to allow it to be used as it is meant to?

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I've forgotten one important piece of code that will allow me to get data from any domain. Unfortunately, my research on the subject has pointed to Mozilla not allowing it. Could those people be wrong, too?

Regardless, I'm tired of banging my head on this wall. This is just another moment where I have to ask the open source zealots "Is it really that much better?" It sure doesn't seem that way sometimes.